Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Nearly 25 years after the fall of Apartheid in South Africa, leading African television network M-Net is under fire over an employment advertisement noting that it is looking to employ a “white, English speaking commissioning editor”.
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New York, US (PANA) – The United Nations body monitoring implementation of the global convention on prohibiting racial discrimination has called on high-level politicians and public officials of the United States to unequivocally and unconditionally reject and condemn racist hate speech and crimes in Charlottesville and throughout the country.
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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The fight against racism must be unremitting to be successful, according to the oldest of the United Nations treaty-monitoring bodies, which opened its latest session in Geneva on Monday.
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A year after a white Durban woman sparked a national outcry by posting racist comments on Facebook, a white Johannesburg man is under fire for an equally offensive Facebook post.
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Another major race row is sending shockwaves around South Africa after two white men, accused of forcing a black man into a coffin and threatening to set him alight, on Wednesday abandoned their bail application, saying they fear for their lives.
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A Durban real estate agent who sparked a nationwide outcry by labelling black people as monkeys was convicted and sentenced by a magistrate’s court on Monday after pleading guilty.
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Just one day after South Africa marked the 40th anniversary of the June 16, 1976, Soweto Riots which sparked the revolution that led to the end of Apartheid, the country has been rocked by yet another race-related altercation.
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Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union will continue its efforts to eliminate all forms of discrimination within its borders and in the world, so that all may enjoy human rights and fundamental freedoms, without restrictions or exceptions, EU High Representative Federica Mogherini said Friday, marking the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A race row sparked by comments posted on social media sites by two white South Africans continues to escalate with the ruling African National Congress stating that it will push for legislation to criminalise any act that perpetuates racism or promotes apartheid.
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – More than two decades after South Africa confounded the world by hosting free and fair elections that saw Nelson Mandela elected on a ticket of non-racism, this former land of Apartheid continues to grapple with its racial demonstration.
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Just weeks after a statue of Cecil John Rhodes, an ardent believer in British colonialism and founder of the southern African territory of Rhodesia, was toppled at the University of Cape Town, another university in the Western Cape province has become embroiled in racial tensions.
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma and former Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe are among a group of leading personalities who will address a historic anti-racism summit organised by Global Watch in Johannesburg on Friday.
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Two incidents of racism have made headlines around South Africa and demonstrated that 20 years after the end of Apartheid, race relations still remain raw.
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Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Twenty years after Nelson Mandela swept into power on a ticket promising racial reconciliation and Archbishop Desmond Tutu declared South Africa as the “Rainbow Nation”, the country is still grappling with race issues, PANA reported Saturday.
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Twenty years since the advent of democracy and the birth of a non-racial South Africa, racism is still rife in the country, so says the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) which noted that it has received 500 racism-related cases over the past year.
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's Young Communist League (YCL) on Monday called for the resignation of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Deputy Minister Pieter Mulder to resign, saying President Jacob Zuma should sack him if he fails to quit.
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New York, US (PANA) - UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro on Tuesday urged States to continue to combat racism, xenophobia and intolerance, in order to promote harmony and peaceful co-existence.
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New York- US (PANA) -- The news UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, Githu Muigai, has listed the areas that will be under the spotlight during his tenure.
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Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The UN special rapporteur on racism, racial disc rimination, xenophobia and intolerance, Doudou Diène, arrived here Sunday on a f i ve-day working visit, an NGO, Help to Widows and Orphans of Mauritanian Soldiers said in a statement Monday.
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Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) – A senior official of the U-N Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Wednesday urged African leaders to formulate strategies and policies to fight racism and discrimination in their cities.
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Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Russian ambassador to Cameroon, Abdoulayev Poulate, has expressed his country's regret over the death on 24 December in Saint-Petersburg of Cameroonian student, Leon Kanhem.
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Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South African President Thabo Mbeki Friday called for an end to development of cities designated exclusively for the rich or the poor in the country, warning that the practice could re-enact racial and class divisions of the apartheid era.
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Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African Human Rights Commission has given a ruling that vindicated two black children who were victims of an ugly racial incident that made headlines around the country.
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Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African Human Rights Commission has given a ruling that vindicated two black children who were victims of an ugly racial incident that made headlines around the country.
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Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The Black Lawyers Association on Wednesday distanced itself from the statement made by the Cape Bar Council when reacting to allegations of racism among white judges in the Cape High Court of South Africa.
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Paris- France (PANA) -- The UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has expressed concern at what it called racial inequalities in Mauritania, citing the poor representation of Negro-Africans in the military, the police and the government.
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Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- A sub-regional workshop opened here Monday to discuss the role of civil society in implementing the Durban Plan of Action on Racism, Discrimination, Xenophobia and Intolerance.
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Saint-Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- A committee against racism set up by Reunion personalities has urged French Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin to take measures following police racist behaviour towards two Reunion nationals in Paris recently.
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London- UK (PANA) -- Leaders of 2,600 Africans living in Northern Ireland have called on British authorities who govern the province to take action against a wave of assaults and forced evictions facing the minority population.
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Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Just few days after two locks were excluded from the South African rugby World Cup squad for their part in a race row, the Springbok media officer Mark Keohane resigned saying he wants no part in a cover up.
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Paris- France (PANA) -- A court in Linz has dismissed a law suit filed by a Black African refugee against an Austrian policeman who called him "Fucking Nigger" at a road checkpoint, according to the French daily, Libération.
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Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The sentencing last Friday of Pretoria bus shooter De Wet Kritzinger serves as a warning for all racists, South Africa's Justice Ministry affirmed Monday.
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Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African Human Rights Commission has been called on to investigate an alleged case of racism after a black woman claimed she was denied employment at a white-owned hair salon because of the colour of her skin.
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Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Joyce Mashamba, Education minister in South Africa's Limpopo province Wednesday led a series of high-level inspections of provincial schools accused of racial discrimination in their criteria for admission.
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Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's ruling African National Congress Youth League in the Western Cape is spearheading a campaign to eradicate racially based exclusions from all schools.
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Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal, Thursday condemned last Sunday's eviction of a black boy and his white friends from a caravan resort on grounds of racism.
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